2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Leila Christine Nadir, Afghan Americana: An Intimate Geopolitical Memoir (Literary Memoir) Afghan Americana is a lyrical geopolitical investigation ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Max Watman “immerses readers in a world other than their own”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Max Watman, Tomorrow, the War (Historical Fiction/Literary Fiction) Tomorrow, the War is about the adventures of the outlaw Jed Stokes, and his ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Stephanie Cuepo Wobby discusses “the inextricable ties between military service and intergenerational trauma”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Stephanie Cuepo Wobby, To the Other Side of the Sea (Nonfiction Memoir) To the Other Side of the Sea is a memoir about silence, inheritance, and ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Sahar Delijani “depicts the power of storytelling”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Sahar Delijani, The Luminous Blue (Literary Fiction) The Luminous Blue explores life in a dictatorship, the inheritance of loss and trauma and the ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Ryan D. Matthews’ “work probes the prohibitory bonds of masculinity”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Ryan D. Matthews, Country Music (Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Country Music, three students struggle within their impoverished rural community when a ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Lydia Kim’s stories “illuminate the ways people create wholeness from pieces.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Lydia Kim, The Divers (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA The Divers explores the struggle of breaking painful cycles when misogyny, self-exile, ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Ja’net Danielo’s “poetry centers the sick, disabled, aging female body”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Ja'net Danielo, Migration (Poetry), Long Beach, CA Migration grapples with what it means not just to survive cancer but to be truly alive. "I ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham “creates space and conversations to help others”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham, What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? (Literary Fiction/Horror), Copenhagen, DENMARK What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? is a mythologized ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Caroline Schmidt “explores madness and melancholy as a form of shapeshifting”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Caroline Schmidt, The Understudy (Novel), Phoenix, AZ The Understudy, a bildungsroman, follows Norwegian teen Matty Johansen as he moves between ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Camille Wanliss “challenges the boundaries of Western culture”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: An Ornament and a Disgrace (Historical Novel), New York, NY An Ornament and a Disgrace is a novel about land and legacy set in 1960s ... [Read More]
Congratulations COURAGE to WRITE Grant Awardees!
Congratulations to the 2023 COURAGE to WRITE Grant Awardees! Thank you for sharing your inspiring projects with us. We're delighted that Camille Wanliss, Caroline Schmidt, Ja'net Danielo, Jeannetta ... [Read More]
Shelley Stoehr
Girls! Girls! Girls! (Creative Nonfiction), West Haven, CT In Girls! Girls! Girls!, a recent college graduate struggles to make it as an artist while working as a stripper in 1990s New York and ... [Read More]
Sakinah Hofler
Stable (Novel), Newark, NJ Situated in Newark, NJ, Stable follows a young, Black woman who is trying to escape the world of forced prostitution and make a better life for herself and her ... [Read More]
Preeti Kaur Rajpal
membery (Poetry), Minneapolis, MN In membery, Rajpal uses the tool of memory to write about Historic India’s Partition woven with the experience of Sikhs in America in the post-9/11 era. "I ... [Read More]
Nikesha Elise Williams
The Seven Daughters of Dupree (Historical Fiction), Jacksonville, FL The Seven Daughters of Dupree is a historical fiction novel about the secrets kept between mothers and daughters over the ... [Read More]
Morris McLennan
The Shapeshifters (Fiction), Chicago, IL The Shapeshifters is a novel about railways and billionaires and transgender people and love and ghosts and the Midwest United States. "I want people ... [Read More]
Melissa Chan
You Must Take Part in Revolution (Graphic Novel), Co-author: Badiucao, Berlin, GERMANY You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao, is a speculative fiction set in a ... [Read More]
Joshua Aiken
Wear a Clean Second Face (Poetry), New Haven, CT Wear a Clean Second Face is a project focused on the paradoxes of American football: owners, profit, and spectacle; brutality, cognition, & ... [Read More]
Gary V. Powell
Men in Love: Stories (Short Fiction), Cornelius, NC Men in Love: Stories is linked by the theme of “men in love.” And not only romantic love between a man and woman, but also a man's love for his ... [Read More]
Eva Freeman
Jericho (Historical Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Jericho, During the dawn of African independence, Franklin Williams, a great champion of the race, will also participate in one of its greatest ... [Read More]
Emily Hockaday
Blood Music (Poetry), Queens, NY Blood Music braids together pregnancy and childbirth, a father’s diagnosis and death from ALS, and a loved one’s addiction crisis. "I aim to reach readers ... [Read More]
Cocoa Michelle Williams
Syrup (Poetry), Marietta, GA Syrup explores the myriad ways in which Black women have embraced radical self-definition in the face of the flatness of stereotype and dehumanizing ... [Read More]
Christina Chiu
Faith in a Time of No God (Nonfiction Memoir), New York, NY As a mother of a medically-fragile child, Chiu’s Failing to Thrive: A Story about Race and Gender Bias in Medicine speaks to how ... [Read More]
Christina Wood
Escapes (Fiction), Athens, GA Escapes follows four female characters on the brink of enormous life change as symptoms of climate change begin to manifest in their own town. “My hope is ... [Read More]